After the end of day 3 of covid-19 inoculation programme, the Union Health Ministry on Monday said that no case of severe Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI) can be attributed to the vaccines.
According to a provisional report till 5 pm, Monday, 3,81,305 beneficiaries from the priority group of healthcare and frontline workers have been vaccinated across the country, with 580 AEFIs reported so far.
However, two persons, who got their doses on January 16, reportedly died due to cardiopulmonary disease not linked to the vaccine.
Mahipal Singh, a 52-year-old who worked as a wardboy in a government hospital in Moradabad, died on Sunday, a day after he was vaccinated.
“The post-mortem by a board of three doctors revealed death due to cardiopulmonary disease. There were pockets of pus in the lungs and an enlarged heart. The death is not related to the vaccination,” said Dr Manohar Agnani, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW).
In case of Nagaraju, a 43-year-old, an employee of the state health department in Bellary, Karnataka, who died on Monday, two days after getting the vaccine.
“The cause of death is the anterior wall infarction with cardiopulmonary failure. Post-mortem planned today at Vijaynagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Bellary,” Agnani said.
In the Moradabad case, while Singh’s son Vishal said his condition deteriorated after he took the vaccine on Saturday and that he held “the government responsible” for it, health officials, including the Chief Medical Officer denied that the death was linked to the vaccine.
In Bellary, Deputy Commissioner Pavan Mallapati said the district AEFI committee had ruled out a direct correlation between the vaccination and the death of the worker.
On Monday, 25 states and UTs conducted 7,704 sessions. According to the provisional data, Karnataka (36,888), Odisha (22,579), West Bengal (11,588), Telangana (10,352), and Andhra Pradesh (9,758) topped the list of vaccinations.
